Sleeping bag



Patented Feb. 12, 19290 rureu ATES' LAVINIA METTAM, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SLEEPING: BAG.

Application filed August 8, 1927. Serial No. 211,340.

The present invention relates to sleeping bags, and more particularly to such. devices as are adapted for the use of infants.

The main objects of this invention are to provide a sleeping bag of simple construction, durable and inexpensive, whereby the infant may be very readily and easily placed therein, and more particularly to provide such a covering as will allow freedom of arms and hands, legs and feet without danger of exposure of parts of the body desired to be kept covered, thus overcoming the necessity of having to constantly recover the infant, and further overcoming the fear that the in font may be uncovered during the night,

through stirring about, and not receive attention.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings,

wherein Figure 1 is a front view of a sleepingbag, with part broken away;

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional side view of the bag taken on line 33 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a cross sectional side view of the same taken on line dd of Figure 1:

Figure l is an enlarged portion of the bag, showing a part of the same in detail;

Figure 5 shows the bag as being worn by an infant in sitting position; and

Figure 6 shows the bag as being worn by an infant in reclined position.

The construction as shown in the drawings comprises a rectangular-shaped sleeping bag designated generally 1 having a front side 2, preferably composed of two members 3. 4. one overlapping the other at 5 and a back side 6. The two parts 3. l of the front side 2 and back side 6 are preferably sewed together along their congruent edges except at the feet openings 7, 7 and the neck opening 8. hereinafter more particularly described. Also small opposite portions 9 of member 3 and likewise opposite portions 10 of member 4 are left unsewed. Thus an opening 11 extending transversely of the bag is provided, whereby the sleeping bag may readily be slipped over the infants head and properly adjusted. The unfastened portion 10 overlaps portion 9, thus ll closing the transverse opening 11, and is secured thereto by registering buttons and buttonholes 12.

When the bag is slipped over the infant, its

interior of the sleeping bag and becoming entangled therein.

leaving the infants leg exposed.

. and a short central placket therefor, the front head protrudes through the neck opening 8,. centrally located at the top. Said neck opening is divided by the longitudinal opening 14, which has registering buttons and buttonholes 15, thus providing means whereby the same may be closed snugly about the neck.

Spaced at opposite sides of the medial longitudinal line, between said line and the sides of the bag, and in the approximate location of the shoulders of the infant in the sleeping bag, are two arm openings 16, 16 giving the infant complete freedom in the use of its hands. About said openings may be fastened elastic cuffs 17, comparatively loose, so as not to stop blood circulation, and yet will prevent the'infant from withdrawing its arms to the At the bottom of the sleeping bag, and preferably adjacent the extreme corners thereof, are two feet openings 7, 7 Thus with its feet protruding through the opposite corners of the sleeping bag, the infant has the desirable freedom. to stir and kick about, and yet without danger that it will become uncovered and exposed.

About each opening is attaching adjusting moans 20,comprising a cuff 21, having a but ton 22 thereon and buttonholes 23 spaced at regular intervals so that the size of said openings may readily be adjusted to conform to the size of the infants ankles therein, thus preventing one or both of the feet from being drawn inside and becoming entangled therein, or preventing the lower portion of the sleeping bag from working i ipwardly and The bag is preferably ,rnaole of a length greater than the infant, so that the lower part thereof will fold over the infants feet (as particularly well seen in Figure 6) thus providing additional covering for the feet.

The invention being intended to bepointed out in the claim is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore described. 7 i

T claim:

A one piece sleeping garment comprisinga rectangular shaped bag having a neck opening medially positioned at one end thereof,

of said bag having arm openings'at opposite sides of its medial longitudinal line and becufi's around each of said feet openings for tween said line and its side edges, an opening engaging the ankles of the wearer, as and for "whereby the garment may be donned, an the purpose set forth. overlapping flap for closin said last men- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set tioned opening, said bag having feet openings my hand at GrandRapids, Michigan, this 5th at the extreme corners of the bag at the end day of August, 1927. opposite to said neck opening and adjustable LAVINIA METTAM. 

